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Know Thy Enemy: Evolving Attitudes Towards Others in Modern Shiʿi Thought and Practice

Know Thy Enemy: Evolving Attitudes Towards Others in Modern Shiʿi Thought and Practice

Litvak, Meir

Hardcover

IslamAnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 900443920X
ISBN13: 9789004439207
Publisher: Brill
Published: Mar 18 2021
Pages: 12
Weight: 1.60
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
In Know Thy Enemy, Meir Litvak analyzes the re-articulations of the Others in modern Shiʿism, as a novel way to examine the formulation of modern Shiʿi identity and place in the world. Among these others, which have transformed into enemies in the modern period are the West, apostates, Wahhabism, Jews, Baha'is and feminism.

Looking at the rhetorical themes that Shiʿi writers use, the book demonstrates the contrast between the collective positive We and the negative threatening Other as a major principle in the evolution of Shiʻism as the minority branch of Islam. It offers a complex view of Shiʿi identity combining a sense of victimhood and insecurity together with conviction of intellectual and moral superiority and long-term triumph.

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